Today, Oracle and AWS jointly announced the general availability of Oracle Database@AWS in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) Regions, marking a major milestone in our multicloud strategy. This new capability enables customers to run Oracle Database services directly within Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Oracle’s Most Advanced Database Services, Ready for AWS Customers

With Oracle Database@AWS, customers can deploy mission-critical workloads on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure and Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure — all running within AWS data centers. You get the proven performance, security, and availability of Oracle Database, Oracle Exadata, and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) with the security, resiliency, and scalability of AWS infrastructure.

Oracle’s unique multicloud offering pairs an OCI parent region with an OCI child site located within AWS. Oracle manages the infrastructure and low-latency private network between Oracle Database services and the customer’s Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), all of which can run in the same Amazon Availability Zone (AZ). Customers can easily provision Oracle Database services into their AWS environments using the same security controls, policies, and operational practices they’ve already adopted in AWS.

Key Benefits and Use Cases

Migrate Oracle Database workloads to AWS

With Oracle Database@AWS, customers can quickly and easily migrate Oracle Exadata workloads to infrastructure managed by OCI and running within AWS with minimal changes, full feature availability, architectural compatibility, and the same performance as on-premises. Your Oracle Database services run side-by-side with applications in AWS, minimizing latency, complexity, and data movement. When moving your Oracle Database workloads to Oracle Database@AWS, you have the choice of using tools such as Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM), Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN), Data Pump, and others. And with flexible licensing options, you can use license-included consumption or bring your own licenses (BYOL) — including Standard Edition licenses with Oracle Autonomous Database. 
 
And you can now migrate key Oracle Applications to AWS. Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle Enterprise Performance Management, and Oracle Retail Applications are supported on AWS when running on Oracle Database@AWS.

Innovate by unifying your data across Oracle and AWS

Providing unified application access to data across Oracle Database and AWS helps you generate deeper insights and innovate in new ways. You can use zero-ETL integrations to connect Oracle Database@AWS to Amazon Redshift for analytics, machine learning, AI, and data integration services. You can build new, scalable, cloud-native applications by combining the latest features of Oracle Database 23ai such as AI Vector Search, Oracle Exadata X11M hardware capabilities that accelerate AI Vector Search, and services running in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS).

Simplify management and operations

Oracle Database@AWS helps simplify your data estate, from purchasing and support to management and operations:

  • Procure through the AWS Marketplace using private offers for simplified, single billing and spend against your existing AWS commitments.
  • Provision Oracle Database services directly into your AWS account and VPC just like any other AWS service. Oracle and AWS have worked together to ensure that you can use the same governance, auditing, and resource management you already use in AWS. Oracle Database Network gives you control over network access and Amazon VPC Lattice integration provides secure access to services.
  • Provision and manage Oracle Database@AWS resources using the AWS and OCI consoles, CLI, API/SDK, or AWS CloudFormation.
  • Monitor metrics in Amazon CloudWatch. The service automatically sends host performance metrics to CloudWatch and Oracle Exadata infrastructure and database events into Amazon EventBridge for integration into your current monitoring and notifications. API operations are logged to AWS CloudTrail for governance and compliance. You can also use your preferred Oracle monitoring tools, including Oracle Enterprise Manager or Oracle Database Management Cloud.
  • Oracle managed backups can automatically backup your database to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). You can also configure backups to use OCI Object Storage, Oracle Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service running in OCI, or manually backup databases using your preferred approach.
  • Resource sharing through AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) allows you to create Exadata infrastructure and Oracle Database Network through the AWS account you used to accept the private offer. You can share these resources with other AWS accounts in your AWS Organization, allowing those accounts to provision VM clusters and databases.

Getting Started

Oracle Database@AWS is purchased in the AWS Marketplace and requires a private offer from Oracle. You can work with your Oracle sales representative to create an offer. If you’re not an Oracle customer yet, use our contact form and an Oracle representative will connect with you.

Once you sign and accept the private offer, you will receive instructions on activating your Oracle Database@AWS subscription in the AWS Marketplace. This process creates a link between your AWS account and your OCI tenancy and allows you to create Oracle Database@AWS resources. 

These resources will reside in an Oracle Database Network, an AWS networking construct that provides an isolated private network for hosting OCI resources in an Amazon Availability Zone to connect to your Amazon VPC resources. The Oracle Database Network can be peered directly to a VPC or connected to broader networks using services such as AWS Transit Gateway or AWS Cloud WAN. 

The offering is available today in two Amazon Availability Zones each in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) Regions. Using OCI automation you can set up Data Guard cross-AZ and cross-region standby databases to support high availability use cases. We are planning to add 20 more AWS Regions across the world. Refer to Oracle Multicloud Capabilities for the latest on region and service availability.

For detailed steps on creating the Oracle Database Network, provisioning Exadata Infrastructure and VM clusters, and creating databases, check out these additional resources:

A New Era for Multicloud Data

This launch strengthens our ongoing commitment to customer choice, interoperability, and the future of enterprise multicloud. Bringing together the strengths of Oracle and AWS, Oracle Database@AWS empowers organizations to innovate faster and run their most critical workloads with confidence.

To learn more, take a look at our documentation or contact us to discuss your Oracle Database multicloud journey.

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